Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Big Data Says You Should Hire Criminals"

From MoneyBox:
Eamon Javers tells us about a bunch of correlations people are finding as our computational power increases, including this gem for the human resources department:
But here's the weirdest thing [Evolv] said it has discovered: Criminals can make better employees than anyone else. Evolv calculates that employees with criminal backgrounds are 1 to 1.5 percent more productive on the job than people without criminal records, and the firm said that difference in a large company "could result in tens of millions in profit and loss gain."...MORE
That may explain my strange attraction for this December 2008 panel:

December 13, 2008